A corrupted pfile can become one of the worst nightmares in administering a mud. When such a pfile begins to load but is only partially complete, the code normally would continue to cycle at the EOF marker and get stuck there. The resulting bug messages are murder on the logs and other resources. In a limited quota environment, this will fill up your space in mere seconds. In a non-limited environment, the potential exists for this to fill up the entire drive in a matter of minutes.

The code fixes above can also be used on other things which expect to load files after bootup, mainly in snippets that add new things to the system which are not part of the main codebase.